Topological segmentation of discrete human body shapes in various postures based on geodesic distance

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yijun Xiao ◽  
P. Siebert ◽  
N. Werghi
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Geodesic Distance ◽  
Body Shapes

Addiction to medical aesthetic procedures

2018 ◽  
Vol XIV ◽  
pp. 233-249
Author(s):  
Jolanta Kozaczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Social Functioning ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Surgical Intervention ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Aesthetic Medicine ◽  
Utopian Vision ◽  
Frequent Contact ◽  
The Media ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
Aesthetic Procedures

Today’s media disseminate a narcissistic cultivation of beauty and promote a focus mainly on appearance and satisfaction from its improvement. The human body assumes a form in the media that is often impossible to achieve without surgical intervention. When people are in frequent contact with a utopian vision of the perfect body, this can lead to many disorders in both social functioning and self-perception. In extreme cases, striving to preserve beauty and youth may lead to an addiction to aesthetic medicine treatments. It is an increasingly common phenomenon. People who are addicted to treatments improving their beauty or changing their body shapes are not aware of the problem that affects them. They lose their rational judgement and their assessment is far from the opinions of people around them and socially accepted norms. All signs of concern from others are perceived as an attack on their independence and this further deepens their sense of loneliness and isolation from society. With time, undergoing further beautifying procedures becomes the only way they know to achieve a momentary sense of happiness.

scholarly journals BodyNet: Volumetric Inference of 3D Human Body Shapes

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gül Varol ◽  
Duygu Ceylan ◽  
Bryan Russell ◽  
Jimei Yang ◽  
Ersin Yumer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Body Shapes

scholarly journals Inside Humans: Creating a Simple Layered Anatomical Model from Human Surface Scans

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Komaritzan ◽  
Stephan Wenninger ◽  
Mario Botsch
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Computer Animation ◽  
Physical Simulation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Surface Layers ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
Surface Scan ◽  
Morphable Models ◽  
Muscle Models

3D morphable models are widely used to describe the variation of human body shapes. However, these models typically focus on the surface of the human body, since the acquisition of the volumetric interior would require prohibitive medical imaging. In this paper we present a novel approach for creating a volumetric body template and for fitting this template to the surface scan of a person in a just a few seconds. The body model is composed of three surface layers for bones, muscles, and skin, which enclose the volumetric muscle and fat tissue in between them. Our approach includes a data-driven method for estimating the amount of muscle mass and fat mass from a surface scan, which provides more accurate fits to the variety of human body shapes compared to previous approaches. We also show how to efficiently embed fine-scale anatomical details, such as high resolution skeleton and muscle models, into the layered fit of a person. Our model can be used for physical simulation, statistical analysis, and anatomical visualization in computer animation and medical applications, which we demonstrate on several examples.

Gender Recognition Using 3-D Human Body Shapes

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 898-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinshan Tang ◽  
Xiaoming Liu ◽  
Huaining Cheng ◽  
Kathleen M. Robinette
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Gender Recognition ◽  
Body Shapes

Reanimating the Body in Conceptual Metaphor Theory

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-46
Author(s):  
Elisabeth El Refaie
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Body Shapes

This chapter critically reviews the traditional notion of embodiment in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), arguing that it is characterized by a somewhat inflexible view of the way the human body shapes one’s thinking. Probing more recent developments in CMT, including dynamic systems approaches and cross-cultural studies of metaphor, and confronting these with key theories from phenomenology, psychology, social semiotics, and media theory, the original notion of dynamic embodiment is developed. Accordingly, the degree to which people draw on their own bodies when producing and interpreting metaphors depends not only on the cultural practices and the specific actions in which they are engaged at any given moment, but also on the degree to which they are consciously aware of their physicality, as well as the affordances of the modes and media they are using to communicate.

Example-based statistical framework for parametric modeling of human body shapes

2015 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 23-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bon-Yeol Koo ◽  
Eun-Joo Park ◽  
Dong-Kwon Choi ◽  
Jay J. Kim ◽  
Myung-Hwan Choi
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Parametric Modeling ◽  
Statistical Framework ◽  
Body Shapes

The space of human body shapes

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Allen ◽  
Brian Curless ◽  
Zoran Popović
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Body Shapes

scholarly journals Mathematical Forms in the Look about the Human Body: Thought, Technique, Art and Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-150
Author(s):  
Mônica Maria Kerscher ◽  
Cláudia Regina Flores
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Art History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
Mathematical Thought ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
The Look

This article is an analytical exercise on a way of thinking in which mathematics operates in the ways of representing and speaking about human body drawing. With a problematic attitude, one asks: how and where does a technique that colonize ways of representing and looking at the body in art and math activities in the classroom come from? This means analysing a modulation of look and thinking that organizes the imagetic representation of the human body, shapes the image, and orders thought, in which mathematics operates as the agent and effect of a mode of colonization. Therefore, it takes different ways of representing the body in art history, operating in a theoretical-methodological movement, with “the perspective of visuality for visualization in Mathematical Education”. Thus, other possibilities of (re) thinking with images are raised, analysing them under the bias of a decolonial mathematical thought, that is, a thought that questions and denounces the effects of truth and the hegemonic mathematical visualities. From this, then reinventing itself to re-exist in Mathematical Education.

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